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What are the origins of traditional festivals and customs of traditional festivals and customs introduction

1, Tanabata Festival, also known as Beggar's Day, Seven Sisters Festival, Daughter's Day, Beggar's Day, Seven Nymphets Club, Tanabata Festival, Cowboys' Day, Qiao Xi, and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is the custom of Tanabata Xiangqiao Hui. Every year on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, people rush to participate in building incense bridges. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge of four to five meters long and about half a meter wide made of long and thick incense (threaded incense wrapped in paper), fitted with railings and decorated with flowers made of multicolored threads tied to the railings.

2, the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zheng Yang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., originated from the worship of the sky, evolved from the ancient times of sacrificing dragons. The Dragon Boat and Rice Dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

3, Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, line Qing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival in the middle of spring and late spring. Qingming Festival in the development of history carries a rich cultural connotation, the country due to the different regions and the existence of customary content or details of the differences between the festivals around the activities are not the same, but sweeping the ancestors, trekking excursions is the *** with the basic rituals of the theme.

4, social day festival, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as land birth, is an ancient traditional Chinese festival, social day is divided into spring and autumn social. Southern "February 2" still follow the custom of sacrificing society, such as in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions; in addition is the formation of both similar to the Dragon Heads Rising Festival customs, but also to the main custom of sacrificing society's new "February 2" customs, such as in the Guidong Hakka region.

5, Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. Lantern Festival mainly have a series of traditional folk activities such as lanterns, eating dumplings, riddles, fireworks. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has increased the number of traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dance, stilt walkers, rowing dry boats, twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other traditional folkloric performances.